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Known for its equestrian club, lush scenery and stately homes, Smoke Rise sits tucked in the Ramapo Mountains of Morris County. Neighbors declined to speak with reporters yesterday but others in Kinnelon said the town and neighborhood are usually placid.

"I’ve been here 50-plus years and never heard of anything like this," said Michael Dorata who was shopping at the Kinnelon Mall Thursday morning.

Nancy Pryor, of West Milford, said she is regular visitor because she babysits her grandchild in Kinnelon and her son has friends in the Smoke Rise neighborhood.

"It’s a really wonderful town and Smoke Rise is wonderful," Pryor said.

John Rickson, a delivery driver at Kinnelon Pizza, said he frequently delivers to the Smoke Rise community, but hasn’t dropped off orders at the home where the bodies were found.

"It’s a quiet place," Rickson said. "It’s unusual for something of this magnitude (to happen) in this area."

Police flooded the neighborhood just after 8 a.m. and quickly cleared the area, prosecutors said. Late yesterday, authorities announced there was no forced entry.

The investigation is being conducted by the major crimes unit of the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office along with the Kinnelon Police Department and the Morris County Sheriff’s Office.